September 2018

During the summner staff from across the Directorate for the Student Experience visited the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, to understand how monies raised from the Give It Don't Bin It campaign are invested by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

Alumni from The University of Manchester go onto amazing achievements and we are proud to learn of the continued involvement of Masters alumnus Rajab Mohandis who has been supporting the representation of civil society in the South Sudan peace talks.

The University of Manchester has been at the forefront of Development Studies for 60 years, starting with Nobel Prize winner Sir Arthur Lewis right through to the current work of our Global Development Institute (GDI).

Staff at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre (AIUC) have said thank you and farewell to Jackie Ould, their long-standing Education Co-ordinator and (latterly) Co-director, who retired in August.

Staff, students, visitors and members of the local community attended a celebratory health and wellbeing event earlier this month, marking the official opening of Brunswick Park at the heart of The University of Manchester's campus.

The University recognises that as a global institution we have a responsibility to review our single use plastic consumption and as such have established a single use plastic action group that will feed into the University's decision making structure via the Environmental Sustainability Leadership Group.